What should I do if my little boy has mumps?

Because children nowadays generally lack exercise, and due to various factors, many children are prone to diseases, such as mumps, which is a common disease. Although this disease is not very serious and will not cause serious threats to life and health, it may still have serious consequences if it is not treated in time. So what should a little boy do with mumps?

In daily life, what people call mumps is a respiratory infectious disease medically known as mumps. Mumps is a viral infection of the parotid glands in the neck and face. Men who are infected with mumps during puberty may become infertile for life if the infection spreads to the testicles. Of course, patients who suffer from mumps after the age of 14 are not necessarily infertile for life. For about half of the patients, the virus cannot invade the testicles and will not affect their fertility. In some patients, the virus infects only one testicle, and the spermatogenesis function of the healthy testicle will increase compensatorily. Even if both testicles are infected with the virus, some seminiferous tubules will resume spermatogenesis as the disease is controlled. Before puberty, germ cells are in a relatively static state, which is a non-susceptible period. During the embryonic stage, the germ cells rapidly divide and multiply, and the virus resides in the germ cells and can also multiply rapidly, causing permanent damage to the germ cells.

Mumps is actually a systemic infection, and the virus often affects the central nervous system or other glands or organs to produce corresponding symptoms. Some complications are not only common but may also occur alone without parotid gland enlargement.

1. Reproductive system complications: Mumps virus easily invades mature reproductive glands.

⑴ Orchitis: The incidence rate accounts for 14% to 35% of male adult patients, and there are reports of 9-year-old children suffering from this disease. Generally, the incidence rate increases significantly after the age of 13 to 14 years. It often occurs when the parotid gland swelling begins to subside after about a week, with sudden onset of high fever, chills, testicular swelling and pain, accompanied by severe tenderness. The symptoms vary in severity and generally subside in about 10 days. There is also significant edema of the scrotal skin, and yellow fluid may accumulate in the caecum.

⑵Ovarian inflammation: accounts for about 5% to 7% of adult female patients. The symptoms are mild and do not affect conception, but may occasionally cause premature amenorrhea. ⑶ Pancreatitis: It occurs in about 5% of adult patients and is rare in children. It often occurs 3 or 4 days to 1 week after parotid gland swelling, with severe pain and tenderness in the upper and middle abdomen as the main symptoms. Accompanied by vomiting, fever, abdominal distension, diarrhea or constipation, and sometimes an enlarged pancreas can be felt. Symptoms of pancreatitis usually disappear within a week.

⑷ Nephritis: Mumps virus can be isolated in the urine of most early cases, so it is believed that the virus can directly damage the kidneys. In mild cases, there is a small amount of protein in the urine. In severe cases, the urine routine and clinical manifestations are similar to nephritis. Some severe cases may suffer from acute renal failure and die. But most have a good prognosis.

⑸ Myocarditis: About 4% to 5% of patients suffer from myocarditis. It is more common in the course of 5 to 10 days and may occur at the same time as parotid swelling or in the recovery period. Symptoms include pale complexion, increased or decreased heart rate, low and dull heart sounds, arrhythmia, temporary cardiac enlargement, and systolic murmur.

⑹Others: Mastitis (31% of female patients over 15 years old suffer from this disease), osteomyelitis, hepatitis, pneumonia, prostatitis, Bartholinitis, thyroiditis, thymitis, thrombocytopenia, urticaria, acute follicular conjunctivitis, etc. are rare.

In fact, whether it is a little boy with mumps or an adult suffering from mumps, timely treatment is needed, because if any disease can receive professional treatment in the early stage, then the possibility of cure will be better. If you wait until the disease worsens before receiving treatment, it will seriously endanger your health.